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Ghosts (1915)
49 min | Drama

Ghosts (1915)

49 min | Drama

Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful. Manders protests. The family physician also objects because of the result such ...See moreHelen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful. Manders protests. The family physician also objects because of the result such a match would mean on the children, but Helen's parents laugh at these new-fangled notions. The doctor then appeals to Alving, who laughs him to scorn. Urged on by her parents, ambitious Helen, disregarding all warnings, marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young married woman. She contemplates leaving her husband and seeks her physicians advice, but he declines to give it. She then sees her pastor, who advises her to adhere to convention and her husband. Meanwhile, the young married woman gives birth to a child by Alving, and the physician agrees to bring the father to see it and keep the real parentage secret. Helen also bears a boy named Oswald. When Oswald is nine, Alving dies, a victim of his excesses. Oswald lives a clean life and studies art, but at times his mind seems affected. The mother remembers the doctor's warnings, but rejects them as silly. Knowing the boy has lived a clean life, however, she soon comes to accept the physician's predictions as fact, and schemes to save her son by marrying him to a sweet young girl. She picks out the daughter of her husband's paramour, and, totally unaware of the girl's parentage, draws the two young people together. They fall deeply in love and are to be wed. When the physician receives the wedding invitation, he realizes he must stop the wedding. He feels duty-bound to tell the truth, and does so to Oswald, his mother, his bride-to-be and her father. Realizing that he must protect the girl he loves and embittered by his inheritance, Oswald plunges into mad excesses. He grows to hate his father and then his mother for the past they have embedded in his nature, and his mother slowly realizes the truth of the physician's predictions. Horror stricken, she watches the gradual rotting of her son's brain. The girl, meanwhile, has retired to a convent. Against the oncoming insanity, Oswald fortifies himself with poison, but one day his mother finds him sitting on the floor, paralyzed, playing with the sunbeams, and runs for the pastor. During her absence, he succeeds in reaching the poison and mother and pastor find him dead. As her only hope of consolation, the mother turns to the pastor. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Karl Formes Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen See fewer	Old Heidelberg (1915)
Henry B. Walthall Captain Arling / Oswald (as Henry Walthall) Captain Arling / Oswald (as Henry Walthall) See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Mary Alden Helen Arling - the Wealthy Heiress Helen Arling - the Wealthy Heiress See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Loretta Blake Regina Regina See fewer	A Little Princess (1917)
Al W. Filson The Family Doctor The Family Doctor See fewer	Monte Cristo (1922)
Thomas Jefferson Johanna's Unseeing Husband Johanna's Unseeing Husband See fewer	Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Juanita Archer Johanna Johanna See fewer	Pillars of Society (1916)
Nigel De Brulier Pastor Manders - Alvina's Sweetheart Pastor Manders - Alvina's Sweetheart See fewer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Monte Blue Bohemian in Paris (uncredited) Bohemian in Paris (uncredited) See fewer	Key Largo (1948)
John Emerson Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) See fewer	San Francisco (1936)
Chandler House Oswald as a Boy (uncredited) Oswald as a Boy (uncredited) See fewer	The Gertrude Berg Show (1961)
Erich von Stroheim The School Clerk (uncredited) The School Clerk (uncredited) See fewer	Sunset Blvd. (1950)